How-To Geek

I used to shy away from buffers and tabs because the confusing terminology and obscure keyboard shortcuts put me off. But rest assured, learning all about buffers, windows, and tabs has transformed my Vim usage. I now wonder how I ever worked without them!

Those 24TB drives on Amazon look tempting, I know. Imagine all of the stuff that you can fit inside of that drive. But maybe you shouldn't pull the trigger yet.

While the franchise's future may be in the hands of Amazon MGM, the James Bond franchise has returned to Netflix. The entire 25-movie saga of Sir Ian Fleming's gentleman spy is currently available on the streaming service, allowing viewers to watch the franchise's evolution from the fantastical, over-the-top adventures of Sean Connery's era to the franchise-redefining debut of Pierce Brosnan's Bond in GoldenEye.

The week around the Super Bowl is one of the best times of the year to upgrade your TV, and Hisense is making the choice of what set to upgrade to practically a no-brainer.

Microsoft is famous for breaking windows and forcing AI integration where no one asked for it, but there are also a few hidden gems out there.

If you’re using the Raspberry Pi for all of your projects—even the simple ones—you’re using the wrong board for the job. While the Raspberry Pi is a great machine, sometimes an ESP32 or Arduino is just the better tool. Here’s when I think you should skip the Raspberry Pi and go for a microcontroller instead.

Digging through Settings or Control Panel to make simple changes—like switching default audio device, managing users, or deleting temporary files—isn’t the best use of your time. With a few simple Run commands, you can do the same tasks much faster. Here are some commands to keep at your fingertips.

New cars have gotten seriously expensive, and by 2026, finding anything under $20,000 is basically a thing of the past. A big reason for that is simple—buyers keep flocking to SUVs and pickups, and those segments just keep getting bigger and pricier.

Google Home gets a lot of flak for not being a great smart home platform, but the company is seemingly always adding new features to change that. The latest update brings some welcomed new automation triggers, more specific automation actions, and more.

Paramount+ is one of those streaming services where a wide range of movie genres, niche gems, and blockbusters, classic and new, can hide in plain sight. And with the calendar flipping over to a brand-new month, there's a whole new crop of movies added to the service.

If you're annoyed by generative AI features creeping into Firefox, there's some good news. Mozilla is now publicly testing an 'AI controls' page for Firefox, with the ability to turn off individual features or everything.

Raspberry Pis are fantastic if you need a low-power, versatile device for any range of DIY projects, including robotics and simple self-hosted services. With a little bit of work, they can also become a fantastic DOS gaming station.

If your Netflix movie watchlist needs a bit of a jolt this week, I've rounded up four picks that have been aimed at very different pleasure centers.

If you're running out of space on your Linux desktop or laptop, Visual Studio Code might be the culprit. There's a bug that causes some VS Code installations to never delete files after you trash them, potentially eating up hundreds of gigabytes of storage.

This year I'm excited for phones that fold and new devices with E Ink screens, but it's IKEA, surprisingly, that has blown me away with its newest line of tech—and its new temperature and humidity sensor is an example of the kind of device I most love to see.

As February gets underway on HBO Max, that means your time to watch some of those watchlist titles is dwindling fast. I know all the platform’s new shows and movies are shiny and distracting, but don’t let them deter you from keeping focus and seizing this last opportunity.

Let’s set the scene: you walk into a room that’s just a little too far away from your main router, confident that your Wi-Fi repeater is going to pick up the slack. But the moment you enter, your Wi-Fi signal drops, your YouTube video starts buffering, and you’re left scratching your head, wondering why this keeps happening.

Excel is known as a complex number cruncher that only experts can use, but, in my view, labeling the program with such a sweeping generalization undermines its ability to make life easier. And in no scenario is this truer than in its wish to help you visualize data more efficiently.

Self-hosting today is easier than it ever has been, and I'd recommend that everyone at least tries it. However, with so many options out there, and so much information, it is easy to make some mistakes that create such a bad experience that you stop entirely. These are some of my early mistakes that almost ended my interest in self-hosting.

Raspberry Pi is raising prices yet again on most of its single-board computers and Compute Module devices. This is the second price hike in two months attributed to rising RAM prices.